arch 12, 2016
So will Bernie denounce La Raza?
Recently
we were subjected to endless speculation from the media as to why
Donald Trump wouldn't denounce the Ku Klux Klan because a former leader
of that white supremacist group, David Duke, had supposedly endorsed
Trump's presidential candidacy. Well, Duke said he didn't, and Donald
denounced until I was about ready to denounce Donald if he didn't quit
groveling to the yapping media with more denunciations – truly
uncharacteristic for him.
Now
we've had a mob of a few hundred self-described Bernie Sanders
supporters stop a Trump rally in Chicago with an unruly demonstration
that had fistfights breaking out in the streets. It was impossible not
to notice that liberally distributed throughout that crowd were numerous
Mexican national flags, with a very large one being center focus of Fox
News's favored street shot of the mob. In spite of that flag being
center screen for much of Greta Van Susteren's coverage of the event,
she apparently couldn't see those broad white, green, and red bands
waving in front of her because she kept asking the street reporters if
they could identify the makeup of the crowd. And apparently the
reporters were just as afflicted with colorblindness as Greta, for they
never appeared to notice the half-dozen or so Mexican flags I counted in
that small pack. And the color perception problem must be endemic at
Fox, because Megyn Kelly couldn't see those foreign banners, either,
even as she was asking a reporter on the ground to identify the
affiliation of the protesters.
Since
this protest was taking place in Chicago and appeared to be well
organized, it would seem unlikely that a few Hispanics carrying Mexican
flags just happened to wander onto the scene. I'm more inclined to
believe that an inquiring Fox reporter might have discovered that they
were professional protesters from a militant Hispanic organization,
perhaps La Raza Unida or, considering the protesters' youth, MEChA,
both movements that advocate Hispanic racial superiority and separation
and are entrenched in Chicago's large Hispanic minority. Of course,
the leadership of these organizations, and certainly the protesters,
will deny that they are racist, but consider one of their oft-repeated
mantras: "Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada," which translates, "For the Race, everything, outside the Race, nothing."
Does
that sound a bit racist to you? Memo to Democrat protest planning
headquarters: Multiple Mexican flags carried by angry protesters denying
Trump the right to address an audience might be counterproductive,
reinforcing in voters' minds the validity of his call for a border wall.
To
put it all a bit more into perspective, do you suppose, had there been
some pro-Trump counter-protesters out on those same streets waving
Confederate Stars and Bars, that Fox might not have had so much
difficulty spotting them? Think the terms racist, racism, and KKK
might have been flying back and forth between Greta and Megyn and the
street reporters in their outraged discussions of Trump supporters
carrying that hateful symbol?
So,
Bernie, since that mob boasted that they're yours, we're all out here
awaiting your vigorous public denunciation of those racist and
separatist Hispanic demonstrators – uh...college students, who were a
highly visible (except to Fox News) part of it. Or, as Trump was asked
ad nauseam, do you embrace their racist and separatist views?
we were subjected to endless speculation from the media as to why
Donald Trump wouldn't denounce the Ku Klux Klan because a former leader
of that white supremacist group, David Duke, had supposedly endorsed
Trump's presidential candidacy. Well, Duke said he didn't, and Donald
denounced until I was about ready to denounce Donald if he didn't quit
groveling to the yapping media with more denunciations – truly
uncharacteristic for him.
Now
we've had a mob of a few hundred self-described Bernie Sanders
supporters stop a Trump rally in Chicago with an unruly demonstration
that had fistfights breaking out in the streets. It was impossible not
to notice that liberally distributed throughout that crowd were numerous
Mexican national flags, with a very large one being center focus of Fox
News's favored street shot of the mob. In spite of that flag being
center screen for much of Greta Van Susteren's coverage of the event,
she apparently couldn't see those broad white, green, and red bands
waving in front of her because she kept asking the street reporters if
they could identify the makeup of the crowd. And apparently the
reporters were just as afflicted with colorblindness as Greta, for they
never appeared to notice the half-dozen or so Mexican flags I counted in
that small pack. And the color perception problem must be endemic at
Fox, because Megyn Kelly couldn't see those foreign banners, either,
even as she was asking a reporter on the ground to identify the
affiliation of the protesters.
Since
this protest was taking place in Chicago and appeared to be well
organized, it would seem unlikely that a few Hispanics carrying Mexican
flags just happened to wander onto the scene. I'm more inclined to
believe that an inquiring Fox reporter might have discovered that they
were professional protesters from a militant Hispanic organization,
perhaps La Raza Unida or, considering the protesters' youth, MEChA,
both movements that advocate Hispanic racial superiority and separation
and are entrenched in Chicago's large Hispanic minority. Of course,
the leadership of these organizations, and certainly the protesters,
will deny that they are racist, but consider one of their oft-repeated
mantras: "Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada," which translates, "For the Race, everything, outside the Race, nothing."
Does
that sound a bit racist to you? Memo to Democrat protest planning
headquarters: Multiple Mexican flags carried by angry protesters denying
Trump the right to address an audience might be counterproductive,
reinforcing in voters' minds the validity of his call for a border wall.
To
put it all a bit more into perspective, do you suppose, had there been
some pro-Trump counter-protesters out on those same streets waving
Confederate Stars and Bars, that Fox might not have had so much
difficulty spotting them? Think the terms racist, racism, and KKK
might have been flying back and forth between Greta and Megyn and the
street reporters in their outraged discussions of Trump supporters
carrying that hateful symbol?
So,
Bernie, since that mob boasted that they're yours, we're all out here
awaiting your vigorous public denunciation of those racist and
separatist Hispanic demonstrators – uh...college students, who were a
highly visible (except to Fox News) part of it. Or, as Trump was asked
ad nauseam, do you embrace their racist and separatist views?
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